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The Eleven Women Nobel Laureates

The Eleven Women Nobel Laureates. In the Sciences 1903-2004 (and five who should/could have been). Marie Curie (Sklodowska) 1867-1934. Physics 1903.

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The Eleven Women Nobel Laureates

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  1. The ElevenWomen Nobel Laureates In the Sciences 1903-2004 (and five who should/could have been)

  2. Marie Curie (Sklodowska)1867-1934 Physics 1903 “In recognition of the extra-ordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel.”

  3. Marie Curie (Sklodowska)1867-1934 Chemistry 1911 “In recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and plutonium, by the isolation of radium, and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element.”

  4. Irene Joliot-Curie1897-1956 Chemistry 1935 “In recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements.”

  5. Gerty Radnitz Cori1896-1957 Physiology or Medicine 1947 “For their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen.”

  6. Maria Goeppert-Mayer1896-1957 Physics 1963 “For their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structures.”

  7. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin1910-1994 Chemistry 1964 “For her determination by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances.”

  8. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow1921- Physiology or Medicine 1977 “For the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones.”

  9. Barbara McClintock1902-1992 Physiology or Medicine 1983 “For her discovery of mobile genetic elements.”

  10. Rita Levi-Montalcini1909- Physiology or Medicine 1986 “For their discoveries of growth factors.”

  11. Gertrude B. Elion1918-1999 Physiology or Medicine 1988 “For their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.”

  12. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard1942- Physiology or Medicine 1995 “For their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development.”

  13. Linda B. Buck1947- Physiology or Medicine 2004 “For their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organisation of the olfactory system.”

  14. Lisa Meitner1878-1968 Physics (Fission)

  15. Emmy Noether1882-1935 Mathematics (Algebra)

  16. Wu Chien-Shiung 1912-1997 Physics (Parity Violation)

  17. Rosalind Franklin1920-1958 Physiology or Medicine (DNA)

  18. Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell1943- Astronomy (Pulsars)

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